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Lake Pleasant Fri. Jan 26, 2007
Rating: 5 out of 10

Fri. Jan 26, 2007

How should one start off the season in Lake Pleasant? During mid Feb and March

From: Ivan

Lake Pleasant Wed. Oct 4, 2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

Wed. Oct 4, 2006

What's recommended for top water early mornings this time of year?

From: Ivan

Lake Pleasant Tue. Oct 3, 2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

Tue. Oct 3, 2006

We caught six strippers and one white crappie late night under white lights. They ranged from 15 - 18 inches, the biggest was 28 inches long. Check out David Guest on myspace for pics...

From: David Guest

Lake Pleasant Tue. Oct 3, 2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

Tue. Oct 3, 2006

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From: Tyler

Lake Pleasant Mon. Sep 11, 2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

Mon. Sep 11, 2006

I am interested in fishing for carp at lake pleasant. Could anyone tell me what to use for bait. Thanks

From: gloria bates

Lake Pleasant Fri Jul 7 2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

Fri Jul 7 2006

We Got out at about 2pm. We got a few Bass with the drop shot on the main lake. Then around 4pm a big cloud covered the sun. We caught about 6 more on a top water in 5-10 feet, till the sun peaked back out.

From: Michael

Lake Pleasant Sun Jul 2 2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

Sun Jul 2 2006

last two weekends alot of top water action early am. put in at 4:00 am each time, fish turn off around 7:00 am.

caught mostly strippers all on top water { zarra spook} lost track of how many, but size ranged from 1/2 pound to 5 or 6 lb schoolies.

on ultra light tackle 4 lb test. awesome....

From: preston

Lake Pleasant Mon Apr 24 2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

Mon Apr 24 2006

fished lake pleasant saterday night and sunday morning. fish bit best on a small crappie jig. not much action from shore line, but troling was awsome.caught stringer full of white bass in about 40 min and a 3 lbs largemouth the following morning.

From: Bo

Lake Pleasant 4/22/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

4/22/2005

Caught a few white bass in the Agua Fria arm around 4:00pm. Started trolling and landed 2 heafty stripers (over 10 lbs each) on shad colored crank baits around 7:00pm.

From: Biff

Lake Pleasant 4/19/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

4/19/2005

Fished Wed afternoon and evening in Humbug. Caught mostly White Bass and a few Crappie. White grubs and spinners was working best.

From: WPLee

Lake Pleasant April 16th 2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

April 16th 2005

We got in around 10pm and dropped casting nets down about 40 ft ( just off the main launch) pulled a bucketfull (approx 75 in 3 casts)of chad. Dropped out by the red lights and pulled a 2 lb smallmouth right away. No more bites until about 1 am when we started getting hit by stripers. First one we pulled measured 27 inches and weighed 16 lbs. The rest ranged from 22-26 inches and wieghed from 10-14 pounds. Last catch of the night was a lm bass about 5 lbs. Oh and PS I had 24 lb test and it was snapped (Not broke) 4 times and I was the one who pulled in the 16 lb striper.

From: Josh Campbell

Lake Pleasant March 3,2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

March 3,2005

caught 1, 3lb larmouth on jig. 2, 1lb stripers on Rapla minno and 1, 5.5 lb striper on the same. all from bank.

From: scotty tohottie

Lake Pleasant 4/8/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

4/8/2005

The stupendous inflows provide Lake Pleasant a much-needed nutrient shot in the arm this year. In fact, Pleasant had been on a nutrient starvation diet for many years due to the drought and other factors. This year, it is fat, sassy and nutrient-wise healthy again.
 
In fact, in a single weekend of flows down the Agua Fria River and other small tributaries, Pleasant rose to the 1,702-elevation mark, which is something it hadn't done since 1993 when the lake first filled. That meant a 5- to 7-foot vegetative ring around the lake became flooded, providing much-needed hiding, ambush and spawning cover, in addition to providing even more nutrients.
 
Pleasant is what biologists call a "closed system." Basically, it doesn't have out-flows, so all the nutrient loading this year will stay in the system. Biologically, that is great news for continued reproduction in subsequent seasons.
 
Don't expect Pleasant to return to its glory days when it was going through the "new lake syndrome," but anglers can expect this renowned fishery to significantly increase its productivity and fill creels with hard-fighting fish again

From: AZGF - Wildlife News - April 8, 2005

Lake Pleasant 4/6/2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

4/6/2006

almost the same as the report below. except most of fish came from the river. 4 large and 6 whites. the largemouths were males.

From: Al

Lake Pleasant 4/5/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

4/5/2005

Jackass cove produced 10 white bass and 2 large mouth. Fished from 8 - 12 am using a silver castmaster. Find the fish busting the shad and have fun!

From: Jack

Lake Pleasant 3/30/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

3/30/2005

Hey everyone i just got back from Lake Pleasant and have to tell you the fishing was great. Got out on the lake about 4pm and fished till 600pm. My partner and I fished a small cove in Jackass Cove and found fish busting shad really hard. I used everything i had in my box untill i found the 4 inch Rubber jerkbaits and then we started to cook with gas. Myself and my partner landed 12 Largemouth and one very very big White bass with in 2 hours. The tip is to find were you see shad boiling and jump and fish about a foot below them. Our smallest was 2 pounds and biggest was close to 5. Well good luck and try the Cove out

From: TimW

Lake Pleasant 3/13/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

3/13/2005

We fished Humbug on the 10th and caught Largemouth on spinnerbaits, worms, and jigs and White Bass on spinnerbaits. Fished Coles on the 11th and caught bigger LM on Senko's. Some in the 3 to 3 1/2 lb range. On the 12th we fished the ABF mainly in Coles and we caught LM on Senko's, worms, and spinnerbaits. We weighed 9.12 lbs. finishing in 24th place out of 148 or 149 boats. I don't remember the names of the team who won, but they had an 11+ lb big fish and 20+ lbs to win. Congratulations to them! They did a great job!!...........LeRoy www.cybertrails.com

From: LeRoy Price / Bass & Crappie guide service

Lake Pleasant 3/4/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

3/4/2005

Fished the far end of Castle Creek before the brush started, caught an 8lb striper and 4 whites using 2 inch imitation shad couple feet below the surface. Action stopped around noon.

From: Chris

Lake Pleasant 2/27/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

2/27/2005

went there about 5 got set up with crappie lights by a cliff about 50 in depth. Soon the shad were clouding up by the lights. Casted out a next. Caught a whole bunch of shad. Then put them on circle hook and let them drop. Then in not even a 30second wait we were getting fish. Mostly stipper bass and white bass.

From: peanut

Lake Pleasant 1/2/1900
Rating: 5 out of 10

1/2/1900

table mesa is still cooking it fast and the water is mudy.

From: casper

Lake Pleasant 2/19/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

2/19/2005

Went down with my g/f and another couple, arrived around 2 and fished off shore until night fall. Threw spinnerbaits along with nightcrawlers and tried those real shiners they sell in packets on the shelves. Had one bite, I left my poles sitting with ring bells wihile I fished for bass and when I came back realized the pole with night crawlers was bending and the bell was missing which must have fell in the water. It ended up breaking my line because it got caught in what I belive was a bush and I was also using an older trout pole with 6lb test not expecting any bites at all. My best guess was that it was a good size carp or catfish.

From: Jamez

Lake Pleasant 2/13/2006
Rating: 5 out of 10

2/13/2006

I have never seen lake pleasent this muddy be for. The shad were hard to find but I found thim in humebug cove east mountain side. Also caught 2 bass in the net looking for shad and a carp. I threw thim back and fished with the few shad I had. Around four in the afternoon we hadnt caught a thing so we cald it a day. The mixed drinks started to kick in. What a nice day to be at the lake.

From: casper

Lake Pleasant feb 13th
Rating: 5 out of 10

feb 13th

water is way muddy shade hard to find nothing to brag about just got drunk and have a blast better luck next weekend

From: smokey

Lake Pleasant feb 13th
Rating: 5 out of 10

feb 13th

water is way muddy shade hard to find nothing to brag about just got drunk and have a blast better luck next weekend

From: smokey

Lake Pleasant 2/3/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

2/3/2005

Don't try to cross table mesa river to get in on eagles point. The water is still moving way to fast. I walked in and it was about two feet deep with large bolders all around to get my truck stuck on or in. got upset and called it a day.

From: eric

Lake Pleasant 1/30/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

1/30/2005

5lb striper 2 11/2lb white bass on fake shade about dusk catfish nibles rest of night

From: eric

Lake Pleasant 1/5/2005
Rating: 5 out of 10

1/5/2005

It was a LUNKER kind of day.Monster fish that need to die.Stripers that average 8 pounds.This time of year I offten catch Big largemouth.That is the past unless we start saveing and killing the stripers.

From: CODOGG

Lake Pleasant 10/17/2004
Rating: 5 out of 10

10/17/2004

Got there kinda late in the evening but all went well! The spot we we're in was sorta shallow but seemed to have a pretty decent dropoff about 30-40 out, but the problem was that everytime we would hook one the fish is would almost instantly get hung up on the bottom. So we swithed to spilt shots for weight instead of the bell sinkers we we're using which solved the problem. Mananged to pull in a few small cats but also 2 over 5 pounds, and also something very VERY odd... I was realling in my bait and about half way in something pounded it out of nowhere and I had a fish on, it was a white bass!! on catfish bait!! Must of been because I was reeling it in very fast and must have mistaken it for something else, OH WELL! Over all pleasant has not been too dissappointing for catfish the last month or so.. although it will slow down here shortly when it starts getting colder....

From: Jeremy

Lake Pleasant 9/22/2004
Rating: 5 out of 10

9/22/2004

Wasn't too bad tonite, got there and it was very windy but managed to find a cove somewhat out of the path. I was in the south end, somewhat by the 10 lane on shore. I managed to pull in 3 cats, all under 3 pounds and a weird treat which was a 4 pound striper. Not bad for 2 hours of fishing.

From: Jeremy

Lake Pleasant Sept. 17, 2004
Rating: 5 out of 10

Sept. 17, 2004

Water level is at 1,661 feet (58-percent full). Water is being released at 2,900 cfs. The topwater action is phenomenal through the morning hours. Anglers are reporting topwater success using Ricos, Spooks, and jerkbaits. Aside from topwater, the best technique for catching largemouth bass is the drop shot. Fish deeper (20-35 feet) during the heat of the day and shallower (5-20 feet) during dusk and dawn. Jigs, Texas-rigs, and Carolina-rigs, are also working well. White and striped bass can be most easily had when chasing shad on the surface but spoons are also producing some fish. The marina, Castle Creek, Jackass Cove, and the Agua Fria are good places to target these fish. The catfish bite is good and several catfish are being caught in 10 to 30 feet of water. Crappies are being caught under lights at night and on minnows during the day. Sunfish have moved near shore and can be easily had on worms, especially near boat ramps. This is a great opportunity to take a kid fishing.

From: Arizona Game and Fish Department

Lake Pleasant 7/27/2004
Rating: 5 out of 10

7/27/2004

Water level is at 1,671 feet (67-percent full). Water is being released at 2,200 cfs. The topwater action is phenomenal at times. If there is a breeze rippling the surface, you can often catch fish on topwater throughout the day: if you can stand the heat. Try inside coves at first light. If you don’t see boils, you might try another cove. Anglers are reporting topwater success using Ricos, Spooks, and jerkbaits (soft and hard plastic). Aside from topwater, the best technique for catching largemouth bass is using drop shots. Fish deeper (20-35 ft) during the heat of the day and shallower (5-20) during dusk and dawn. White and striped bass can be most easily had when chasing shad on the surface but spoons are also producing some fish. The marina, Castle Creek, and Jackass Cove are good places to target these fish. The catfish bite is good and several catfish are being caught in 10 to 30 feet of water. There have been no reports of crappie. Sunfish have moved near shore and can be easily had on worms, especially near boat ramps. This is a great opportunity to take a kid fishing.

From: Arizona Game and Fish Department

Lake Pleasant 6/8/2004
Rating: 5 out of 10

6/8/2004

Water level is at 1,689 feet (85 percent full). Water is being released at 600 cfs. Most largemouth bass can be found in about 15-30 feet of water. Currently, the best technique for catching largemouth bass is the drop shot. Top-water baits, jerkbaits, and crankbaits are working well during morning and evening hours. White bass and striped bass are being caught most regularly in Coles Bay, Agua Fria, and Castle Creek. Spoons, crankbaits, and shad are working well for whites and stripers. It is also a good idea to keep a top-water bait rigged if boils should erupt around you. The catfish bite is good and several catfish are being caught in 10 to 30 feet of water. Sunfish have moved near shore and can be easily had on worms, especially near boat ramps.

From: Arizona Game and Fish Department

Lake Pleasant 5/18/2004
Rating: 5 out of 10

5/18/2004

Water level is at 1,691 feet (87-percent full). Water is being released at 500 cfs. One angler fishing at night using a crappie light and live minnows reports catching 25 crappies and 15 whites: all take home size, adding “Oh what fun.” Another angler reports catching catfish, crappies, stripers and white bass at night consistently for five weeks on live shad caught at the lake, adding, “They are hitting real light, so jig your live bait and be ready, if not, you will miss it.” Most largemouth bass can be found in about 20-30 feet of water during the day but shallower during dusk and dawn. Anglers are having success using Senkos, drop shots, and lizards during the day. Topwater plugs, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and crankbaits are working well during morning and evening hours. White bass and striped bass are being caught most regularly in Coles Bay and Castle Creek. One angler reported catching 18 stripers in Castle Creek. Crappie lights can yield a large mixed bag of fish this time of year during nights with little moonlight. The catfish bite is starting to pick up. Several catfish are being caught in 10 to 30 feet of water. Sunfish have moved near shore and can be easily had on worms. There have been no reports of crappie.

From: Arizona Game and Fish Department

Lake Pleasant 5/12/2004
Rating: 5 out of 10

5/12/2004

Water level is at 1,691 feet (88 percent full). Water is being pumped into the lake only to maintain the lake level that should remain steady until water is released in mid May. There are still some largemouth bass on beds but most have finished spawning. Those that have finished spawning can be found in about 20 feet of water. Most anglers are having success in the northern reaches of the lake using Senkos, drop shot, lizards, and tubes. Topwater plugs, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and crankbaits are working well during morning and evening hours. Two big largemouth bass were caught last week, including a 9 and 15 pounder. White bass and crappie are being caught most regularly within the Agua Fria closure and Castle Creek. Several striped bass catches were reported from Coles and Humbug. Crappie lights can yield large, mixed bag catches this time of year during nights with little moonlight. One angler fishing the Agua Fria Arm (accessed off Table Mesa Road) reports catching 60 one-pound crappies in two nights of fishing, plus an assortment of largemouth bass, white bass and even a couple of striped bass: live shad worked best. The catfish bite is starting to pick up. Several catfish are being caught in 10 to 30 feet of water. Sunfish have moved near shore and can be easily had on worms.

From: Arizona Game and Fish Department

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